experts say it could be the sail mate in washington around the fiscal cliff that's causing th this. chris stirewalt is our host of power play on foxnews.com live. this consumer confidence report shows the levels have plunges to the lowest in five months. is this getting any play in washington or was all the talk about the jobs numbers and unemployment rates? >> the jobs numbers weren't good enough to overshadow too much. but the reality in washington is this. that regardless of how bad things are getting right now, and regardless of how much they are scaring the rest of the country, they seem dead set on going over the cliff right now and it will take a lot more than panicking consumers before they change their minds. alisyn: melissa francis is the host of "money" on the fox news business network. explain what consumer confidence means and why it's so bad. >> a lot of it has to do with the fiscal cliff. but as you look deeper into these numbers and the questions they were asking, a lot of people respond saying they feel like taxes are going up count road and that made them nervous a